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A lot’s happened since my last 200 words article. So much up to catch!
Working from home wasn’t really a thing in 2019 was it? Never mind. Here’s three reasons it is about to end.
1. Human behaviour is performance. The social context exposes our behaviour to the gaze and judgement of disinterested colleagues. This sorts the doers from the talkers, it motivates, and it drives a lot of internal self-care. But there is a mental health time bomb awaiting employers when they find previously balanced employees have gone a bit mad because they had only themselves as an audience, and are now unfit to deal with all the work-adjacent chat and manoeuvering of a live office.
2. People will discover that “home” could also be the premises of another employer, whose intermittent tasks can fill the gaps in their main job. Employers won’t wear that.
3. In 2024 the South Australian Employment Tribunal found that an employer was liable for injuries sustained by an employee at home. Significant investment is made to provide safe work environments, and everyone’s about to realise that’s where the workers must be for businesses to recoup that investment and to fulfil their WHS obligations.
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1 天前Fortunately, the third point, which is to utilise my existing professional office space has proven to be a suitable solution. It was designed for three or four staff and the using of this option has not required any substantial investment. But I can understand how other employers’ houses would need sizeable investment.